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When a rare coin comes into your possession mail it to a coin dealer, and he
will send you his check promptly. Be sure that the coin collector is reliable
and can show references for fair dealing. There are a lot of fakers among coin
dealers just as there are among stamp dealers.

A Handy Shop in Your Home

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RS. LINDSTROM , of Wilmette, Illinois, has always been a very energetic
and busy woman. When her husband’s business, which was sanding and
refinishing floors, began to slip she decided to give a lift and add to the
family income.

Her forte was sewing, so she conceived the idea of starting a “Handy Shop”
right in her own home. She inserted a small advertisement in the local paper
announcing that the “Handy Shop” was ready to mend, quilt, make over
clothes, and in general do any of the little odd jobs that so many women
neglect, just because they don’t like to do them or haven’t the time.

Not long after the advertisement appeared, many small repair jobs started
coming in. Then later, as her reputation grew, not only repair jobs but orders
for work on new materials were received. Soon the business outgrew the
corner in the dining room of their big old-fashioned house and it was
necessary to turn the whole dining room with its cheerful bay window into a
workshop that fairly hums with activity from early morning hours until night.
Shelves for storage and wardrobe space for hanging the finished garments
line the walls.

Mrs. Lindstrom soon outgrew the repair and overhauling jobs, and for the
past four years has been busily engaged in making draperies, fine satin
comforters, appliqued and patch work quilts, as well as regular dressmaking.
Lately she has had to hire extra help to meet her delivery dates.

For some time the “Handy Shop” was the sole support of the entire family of
six, her husband’s business having just gradually died out. The husband is